3.—(1) The duration of the suitable programme of study that it is proposed the young person undertake (including where it is an additional programme of study under paragraph 5(1)) is intended at the outset to take place over a period of more than 2 years.
(2) The factors, where relevant, that the local authority must take into account are—
(a)where the programme is designed to allow the young person to access a course of further education or training which is undertaken by young people who do not have additional learning needs—
(i)the usual length of the course for young people who do not have additional learning needs, and
(ii)whether the young person requires additional time in comparison to the majority of other young people who do not have additional learning needs, to complete the course;
(b)where the programme of study is specially designed to provide additional learning provision for the young person, whether there are any exceptional reasons relating to the young person’s capability to learn such that the person’s desired outcomes cannot realistically be met within the period of 2 years.
Commencement Information
I1Sch. 1 para. 3 in force at 1.9.2021, see reg. 1(2)